College Outcomes Explorer

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).

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Which schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). "3×" = that school's notable alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
243
 39.8×
Stanford University CA
174
 37.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
128
 41.7×
Columbia University NY
84
 13.8×
Yale University CT
78
 23.1×
Princeton University NJ
65
 31.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
63
 6.2×
Cornell University NY
62
 15.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
58
 5.2×
New York University NY
57
 5.1×
University of Michigan MI
52
 4.4×
University of Chicago IL
51
 15.1×
University of Southern California CA
51
 5.4×
Northwestern University IL
40
 7.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
35
 4.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
33
 2.8×
Duke University NC
31
 9.0×
Brown University RI
29
 12.3×
Boston University MA
28
 3.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
25
 1.7×
Dartmouth College NH
21
 13.8×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
20
 8.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 1.5×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.7×
George Washington University DC
20
 3.0×
Tufts University MA
19
 7.6×
University of Virginia VA
18
 3.1×
Georgetown University DC
18
 4.4×
University of Minnesota MN
18
 0.9×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
17
 2.3×
Vanderbilt University TN
17
 5.6×
American University DC
16
 4.2×
Southern Methodist University TX
16
 5.3×
Syracuse University NY
15
 2.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
15
 25.8×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
15
 3.2×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
14
 6.7×
Pennsylvania State University PA
14
 1.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
14
 3.4×
United States Military Academy NY
14
 10.3×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear the same size-scaled minimum (5–20 people) as the school pages.
School% of its noted alumniAlumni
Babson College MA
11.0%
 12
Golden Gate University CA
6.5%
 5
Fashion Institute of Technology NY
3.8%
 7
Calvin University MI
3.7%
 5
Pace University NY
3.4%
 6
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
2.9%
 14
Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus NJ
2.8%
 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.6%
 128
Stanford University CA
2.6%
 174
Yeshiva University NY
2.3%
 6
Bucknell University PA
2.2%
 5
Tufts University MA
2.2%
 19
Pepperdine University CA
2.2%
 9
University of San Francisco CA
2.1%
 9
American University DC
2.1%
 16
Lehigh University PA
2.0%
 8
Southern Methodist University TX
2.0%
 16
Pomona College CA
1.9%
 9
East Carolina University NC
1.9%
 5
New York Film Academy CA
1.8%
 5
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.8%
 5
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.8%
 20
Florida International University FL
1.8%
 6
California State University-Northridge CA
1.8%
 7
Binghamton University NY
1.7%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
1.6%
 15
Northeastern University MA
1.6%
 8
Tulane University LA
1.6%
 14
San Jose State University CA
1.5%
 8
Drexel University PA
1.5%
 5
Swarthmore College PA
1.5%
 10
Harvard University MA
1.5%
 243
Northwestern University IL
1.5%
 40
Vanderbilt University TN
1.5%
 17
University of Southern California CA
1.4%
 51
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.4%
 33
Duke University NC
1.4%
 31
University of Denver CO
1.4%
 9
Reed College OR
1.4%
 5
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.3%
 13